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DRIVE VALUE | CREATE TANGIBLE RESULTS | JOIN THE BEST PLACE TO WORK
If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that sourcing matters! Remember product shortages and empty store shelves? Whether identifying opportunities to reduce clients' costs and environmental impacts or proposing innovative solutions that curb the effect of soaring prices and longer lead times, our client's cost optimization and procurement-related services deliver tangible business results for our clients – while also enhancing the employee experience, customer satisfaction, and community impact.
Want to be more than a number-crunching PowerPoint jockey?
As an Associate or Senior Associate, you support all aspects of our client's client-facing projects with direction from our client's experienced management team. In addition, you use your superpowers in consulting, problem-solving, project management, and data analysis to assist client decision-making at private equity (PE) and Fortune 500 companies. Lastly, our client's managers and mentors recognize your leadership potential and invest time and energy in your career to nurture your development and put you in a position to succeed.
Not your typical consulting job, right?
Specific job responsibilities and activities that showcase your consulting prowess could include the following:
- Synthesize disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables
- Create and present robust sourcing strategies and recommendations to client executives
- Support new product/service development within our client and help launch new offerings
- Develop insights in a specific industry working for a Center of Excellence (COE)
- Coordinate communications with internal and external project team
- Develop and nurture relationships with client stakeholders
- Understand how to create consensus among client stakeholders
Typical projects include:
- Strategic sourcing (both within companies and across private equity portfolios)
- Process reengineering
- Spend analysis and savings opportunity diagnostic
- Pre-purchase due diligence
- Make vs. buy decision analysis
- Benchmarking and best practices implementation
We are looking for professionals who will bring their individuality to our firm and establish a positive imprint on our collective story. Our culture is a meritocracy built by trailblazers who break expectations and form new paths, unencumbered by bureaucracy or traditional barriers. We want individuals who fully progress to their career potential while balancing their pursuit of personal interests. In other words, we want people with a story worth telling.
It also helps if you can demonstrate the following areas:
- 5+ years of management consulting and/or relevant professional experience (procurement and Strategic Sourcing preferred)
- Ability to effectively plan and manage multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously
- Demonstrated project management, consulting, leadership, and analytical skills
- Strong work ethic and a high level of integrity
- Effective communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to present comfortably to senior executives
- Proficient at building and nurturing client relationships; proven client-facing skills
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint) products, including the ability to develop and interpret complex analytical models and ad-hoc reports
- Deep analytical expertise with big data and exposure to Alteryx or Python is valued but not required
- Undergraduate degree with a strong GPA from a well-regarded institution
By applying to this position, you consent to be contacted via telephone, email, or SMS by a representative of 360 Talent for purposes of expedited communication.
